Longshanks -- since it's becoming apparent that most believe either will do what ever they want when elected, perhaps you could send the crown on your avatar to the winner. Thanks.

LOL!! !! !

I'll give you 3 for that: 2 for the remark and one for the timing. Actually, I'm a little torn about that. I'm thinking a gold laurel wreath like they gave Caesar - or perhaps the Bicorn that Napoleon wore. What do you think?

I'll give you 3 for that: 2 for the remark and one for the timing. Actually, I'm a little torn about that. I'm thinking a gold laurel wreath like they gave Caesar - or perhaps the Bicorn that Napoleon wore. What do you think?

Longshanks

If by Caesar you mean Gaius Julius Caesar the dictator, he was never given a gold laurel wreath--at least never as a decoration unique among Romans.

He was, of course, awarded a plain laurel wreath as were all triumphant generals.

Furthermore, he was awarded the corona civica which was a chaplet of plain oak leaves, which was granted to Roman citizens who had saved the life of another citizen by slaying an enemy on the spot.

He was never awarded the highest Roman honour, the corona graminea. And even if he had been, it would have been made from plant materials taken from the battlefield on which his actions had saved an entire legion or army.

The gold wreath is most likely of Etruscan origin, and survived into Rome not as a decoration for kings (Roman kings wore diadems of cloth), or triumphant leaders, but rather for curule magistrates, including quaestors aediles, praetors and consuls.

There are potentially two different questions inherent in what you ask.

Obviously, there are more than two choices for the voter holding the ballot, and a vote for another candidate's electors is a valid option for any voter. So if your question is intended to drive home the point that there are more than two candidates on the ballot this November, I wholeheartedly applaud it.

But the other question implicity in what you ask is, "why bother voting at all?" And this is a notion that I thoroughly reject. I hold voting to be an affirmative responsibility. I don't care what choice you make, but I care very much that you make a choice.

Going to the polling station and depositing a blank ballot, or a spoiled ballot is a valid exercise of a citizen's democratic right.
Sitting your ass down on the sofa on election day is lazy.

If you go to the polling station and scrawl, "you're all a bunch of jerks" on your ballot, I will be the first one to stand up and applaud you for doing it. But if you sit there and say, "I didn't bother voting because it won't make a difference," I will be the first one to condemn you for it.